Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Electrochemical CO2 reduction to high-concentration pure formic acid solutions in an all-solid-state reactor

  • Lei Fan,
  • Chuan Xia,
  • Peng Zhu,
  • Yingying Lu,
  • Haotian Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17403-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Electrochemical CO2 reduction to liquid fuels is limited by low product concentrations and formation of mixtures with traditional liquid electrolytes. Here the authors report an all-solid-state system for a continuous generation of high-purity and high-concentration formic acid vapors and solutions.